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After Rome, Forceman Frederick became a major general (at 37) and took the airborne command for the invasion of southern France. Colonel Edwin A. Walker, one of the regimental commanders, took over, led the outfit in its toughest fight yet, a landing in rubber boats on Levant Island, which guarded the approaches through Cavalaire...
...Cost. Before the S.S.F. reached Rome, it had lost more than half the men who sailed from Kiska, including two regimental commanders and nearly all battalion C.O.s. At Levant, where the Germans fought bitterly from their camouflaged hideouts, the casualties struck deep again. By then, because Canadian replacements were fewer, the outfit was more than two-thirds U.S. and many of its officers were ex-noncoms commissioned on the battlefield...
...which two (I'll Be Seeing You and I'll Get By) were years old. Manhattan, the very citadel of the new, reinforced the trend to the old and romantic: one night 21,000 people, the biggest crowd in two years, crammed Lewisohn Stadium to hear Oscar Levant play George Gershwin's 1924 smash, the Rhapsody in Blue...
More & more interested, little Author Leyden pattered from the Levant, through the Balkans, to Paris, met many interesting people in the course of his researches. In Geneva there was cold, gracious Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life...
East of Greece General Wilson must keep an eye on the uneasy neutrality of Turkey. Below there lies the tinderbox Levant and the peninsula of Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...